Wooden-surfaced molding



(N0 Model.)

L. R. HARSHA.

WOODEN SURFAGED MOLDING.

No. 314,833. l PatentedMar. 31, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

LESLIE R. HARSHA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WOODEN-SURFACED MoLolNe.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi' Letters Patent No., 314,833, dated March 31, 1885.

i Application filed January 14, 1855. (No model.) d

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, LEsLIE R. HARsHa, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wooden-Surfaced Moldings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in ornamental wooden-surfaced moldings for use in making picture-frames or other similar purposes.

A wooden-surfaced molding constructed in accordance with my invention comprises a molding provided with a longitudinal groove on its front or outer face, and a strip of wood secured within said groove, said strip being provided in its exposed surface with a series of transverse parallel corrugations, grooves, or ribs arranged either at right angles or obliquely with reference to the sides of the molding, and said strip preferably being located between longitudinally molded, beaded, or luted parts of ythe molding adjacent to the inner and outer margins thereof, whereby an ornamental appearance is given to the molding, which is greatly enhanced by the contrast between the transverse lines of the corrugated strip and the longitudinal lines of the beaded or molded margins of the frame. It is not essential, however, that the said margin should be beaded, molded, or otherwise ornamented, inasmuch as similarly advantageous effects in point of appearance will be gained by the use of the corrugated strip in a molding which is otherwiseliiat or unornamented at its margins.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a 'front elevation of a frame constructed of a wooden-surfaced molding made as proposed by my invention, the upper part of the frame being shown as constructed with a grooved or corrugated strip in which the grooves or ridges are at right angles with the margins of the molding, and the lower part as made with a similar strip the grooves of which are oblique to said margins. Fig. 2 is a section of the molding taken upon line .r x of Fig. l. Fig.

3 is a perspective view of a part of the corrugated strip detached from the main part of the molding.

In the drawings, A is the molding of which the frame is composed, said molding being provided with ornamentally fluted or beaded arts a a' ad`acent to its mar ins and havimT P .l g 7 e In constructing the strip B said strip will usually be made by groving a relatively wide piece of wood longitudinally or in the direction of its grain and then cutting the piece thus prepared across the grain and transversely to the grooves or corrugations therein, so as to form strips of the-desired width to fit in the groove of the part A of the molding. By forming the molding as above described the corrugations of the grooved strip B appear upon the finished molding as running with the grain of the wood, and inasmuch as a much better appearance and finer finish may be given to the said corrugated strip or band when the corrugations are parallel with the grain of the wood than when transverse thereto a greatly improved result is obtained by the use of acorrugated strip thus formed. My invention is not limited, however, to a construction in which the grain of the wood comprising the strip B runs parallel with the corrugations thereof, but embraces, broadly, a molding having a transverselycorrugated strip inserted in a groove in its face. In view of the favorable results obtained by the use of a corrugated strip in which the corrugations are parallel with the grain of the wood, a specific claim is made herein covering a molding provided w`ith a corrugated strip formed as last described.

I am aware that it has been proposed heretofore to construct a molding for frames having a portion of its face formed of or covered by cloth, in which the cloth is held in place by a strip of wood inserted in a longitudinal groove in the main part of the molding, the cloth being placed over the strip, and having its edges held in the joints between the edges IOO part, A, provided with a longitudinal groove, A', in its face, and a transversely-corrugated or grooved strip, B, secured in the said groove A', the gra-in of the Wood in. the said strip being parallel with corrugations or grooves therein, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. i

LESLIE R. HARSHA.

Witnesses:

C. CLARENCE PooLE, OLIVER E. PAGIN. 

